Case report: Ketchion v McEwan (2018) unreported, Newcastle upon Tyne County Court, HHJ Freedman, 28 June

Costs recovery; QOCS protection; counterclaims ‘A claimant who successfully established a claim for catastrophic injuries would not recover a penny of costs if the defendant happened to have even a weak counterclaim for minor whiplash.’ This recent costs case, if correctly decided, has dramatic and far-reaching implications for personal injury litigation. This article will consider …
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Case study: Changing places

Tiffany Scott QC reports on a Court of Appeal decision confirming that a landlord‘s refusal of consent to an application for change of planning use was unreasonable ‘This is the first decided case concerning the interrelationship between a covenant expressly authorising residential use and a covenant not to apply for planning permission without the landlord‘s …
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